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A53308	The stone rolled away, and life more abundant an apologie urging self-denyal, new-obedience, faith, and thankfulnesse / by Giles Oldworth ...	Oldisworth, Giles, 1619-1678.	1663 (1663)	Wing O255; ESTC R8404	298,711	491

Kingdomes within my Text since travail through them I can not Beloved These three generals are the particular limits of my remaining Discourse the which our God the God of all grace and glory so sanctifie unto us all that his most blessed Name may be by every one among us more and more abundantly glorified GOD is said to be glorified both by Himself and by his Creatures 1. In what sense God is said to be glorified By Himself If we cast into the Ocean one only spoonful of water nay By himself one only drop of a bucket we thereunto add because although the Sea be great and wide infinite it is not but unto Gods essential glory none can add for his glory is like [1] Acquaint thy self with God as be is described by B. ushers folio Christian Religon Bishop Baily his Practice of Piety Mo nay his Tru●nesse of Christian Religion Balls larger Catechism or such others for It is life eternal to know God viz. Veluntas sequitur intellectum every other of his Attributes every way infinite It is more impossible infinitely more impossible for any yea for all the Creatures in the world to add either glory or blessednesse that I may not say delight or content unto the most infinite God then it is for the darkest Dungeon to augment the brightnesse or for the blackest coal to multiply the beams of the mid day Sun There can be no accession unto his essential blessednesse because he is for ever most infinitely blessed There can be no accession unto his glory because His glory is eternally the same In the soul of man the power of the Understanding of the Imagination 1 Non est necesse Deum velle aliquid nisi seipsum Non est ergo necessarium Deum velle quòd mundus fuerit semper Sed eatenus mundus est quàtenus Deus vult illum essè cum esse mundi ex voluntate Dei dependeat Tho. Aquinas 1 â. q. 46.3 c. and of the Memory abideth equally the same whether what is undestood conceived and remembred be or be not produced in word or writing so after a most incomprehensible manner in the divine nature the glory of the Father the glory of the Son the glory of the Holy Ghost was equally the same before all worlds as ever since the Creation it hath been and for ever hereafter will be The great God who from all never-begun Eternity unto the beginning of time took pleasure in forbearing to make any Creature at all did not at last [1] Gen. 1.1 John 1.1 Heb. 1.2 11.2 make the Heavens and the Earth as repenting himself of his eternity of leisure before neither did his then Creation proceed [2] St. August de civitate Dei lib. 12. cap. 17. With men animae quiescendo fiunt sapientiores it is not so with God from any new intent neither may we conceive that his Rest affecteth him one way and his Work another I neither was his Vacation idle or his working painful for as before the Creation he rested working so since the Creation he worketh resting again as at first in creating so afterward in redeeming preserving ruling sanctifying c. neither encreaseth he his essential glory neither changeth he his eternal purpose He in all these only applyeth his eternal Will unto new workings As [3] Rom 11.36 of him and through him so to him are all things yet of all those things which he hath made and doth govern it is His Glory that he [4] Psalm 50.12 Job 12.2 3 needeth none Wherefore as it was of his free goodnesse that he in the beginning created the world so [5] Deus suam gloriam quaerit non propter se sed propter nos Tho. Aquin. 22. ae q. 32. art 1. ad 1. mum of his free goodnesse it is that he ever since glorifieth Himself in them Then is God said to glorifie himself when he vouchsafeth to manifest any of his excellencies whether [1] Esay 6.3 Hab. 3.3 1 Pet. 4.13 universally by way of Redemption Creation c. or [2] Esay 60.7 Ezek. 43.2 Numb 14.21 John 13.31 particularly upon distinct ages places or persons 2. By his Creatures God is also glorified for By this crehtures while they glorifie although all the Creatures in the world could not 〈◊〉 they would resist the [1] Voluntati ben●placu● Will or diminish the [2] Job 22.2 3 35.6 7 Psalm 16.2 50.8 12 Prov. 16.26 Rom. 11 35 self-glory of the most high God yet on the other side such several prints and degrees of his goodnesse hath the most high God [3] Acts 14 17 Rom. 1.20 communicated unto all his works that all his works glorifie him as they concur with the good pleasure of either his revealed or his secret Will thus all of them more remarleably set forth the wisdome c. of his providence some of them the power and severity of his Justice others the Riches of his free grace and mercies First His Providence To say nothing of [1] Psalm 77.19 135.6 unsearchable co-operations harmonious contextures regulated contingencies sim Every creature as it existeth and worketh after its kind setteth forth Gods Providence whether Rivers as they [2] Eccles 1.7 run into the Sea or the Sun as he knoweth his [3] Psalm 104 19 148.3 9 going down whether the Stars as they keep their due motions or the Trees bearing fruit in their season yea Angels whether good or evil while they reserve the nature of spirits and men whether regenerate or unregenerate as they partake of body and of spirit too For although Devils have [4] Jude 6. corrupted themselves with envy malice pride c. and although man hath [5] Eccl. 7.29 fallen from his integrity yet the nature of Devils as it continueth the distinct nature of intelligent spirits the body of man as it speaketh the flesh neither of beasts nor of birds nor of fishes but of men likewise mans spirit as it produceth the operations of the soul not of a brute but of a reasonable Creature do all of them after the same manner as all other Creatures do [6] In quantum sunt res quaedam Deus est in daemonibus Tho. Aquin. 1 a. q. 8. 1. c. 4. m. U●●co simplicissimo actu omnia in suâ bonitate vult Deus licet ejusdem suae divinae voluntatis nulla prorsus sit causa Idem 1 a. q. 19. art 5. c. bring glory unto the Providence of the great God I say whether Physically or Metaphysically considered the worst of men and the worst of Angels by performing that whereunto their nature was ordained and in observing after their kinds the ocult lawes of their Creatour glorifie Gods Providence that is they expose an open view of it unto [7] Psalm 148. per totum Psalm 139.14 Revel 14.7 Creatures reasonable and intelligent Secondly Creatures His Justice as creatures shew forth Gods Providence

He is not to his elect as Justinian was to his sometimes favorite Belisarius He is not so cruel to us as Nebuchadnezzar was (5) Jer. 39.7 unto Zedekiah He dealeth not by us as Naash (6) 1 Sam. 11.2 would have dealed by the men of Jubesh He treateth us neither as Joshua (7) Josh 9.21 served the Gibeonites nor as the Philistims (8) 1 Sam. 13.9 used the Israelites Secure Davids Intelligencers (9) 2 Sam 17.18 19 though it be in a damp well under ground corn So you conveigh him down out at the Window (10) Acts 9.25 let Paul for once be (11) 2 Cor. 11.33 Paul in a basket and so you bring him up out of the Dungeon bolster up Jeremiah with (12) Jer. 38.11 Old cast clouts and with old rotten rags Beloved although God giveth us quarter although he spareth our lives yet should he deal with us as we deserve he might justly continue us in this life servants (13) with Rom. 6.16 compare Matth. 1.21 and with 2 Tim. 2.26 1 Cor. 5.5 1 Tim. 1.20 Compare Acts 26.18 unto sin captives (14) Psal 103.10 unto Satan He might make us like the Jews wear yellow badges Oh my Brethren God hath not dealed with us 15 according to our sins he hath not rewarded us according unto our iniquities He hath (1) 2 Kings 6.20 brought us into the midst of Samaria but (2) 2 Kings 6.23 he setteth bread and water before us He crucifieth our old man but our inward man he (3) 2 Cor. 4.16 reneweth daily He taketh from us our filthy garments but giveth unto us (4) Esay 61.10 robes of Righteousnesse He (5) Gal. 6.14 disarmeth us of our rebellious forces but harnesseth us with the (6) Eph. 6.11 2 Cor. 10.4 whole armour of God He dispossesseth us of (7) Eph. 6.5 our strong holds mean while He Himself is (8) Psal 18.2 71.3 91.2 62.7 our strong habitation whereunto we may alwayes resort O my dearly beloved Brethren The mighty Captain of our salvation doth conquer us but he conquereth us with kindnesse Behold He giveth us free (1) Gal. 5.1 13 liberty to (2) Ephes 5.16 make the best of our time of our abilities nay of his what Talents we have are (3) Matth. 25.14 1 Cor. 4.7 James 1.17 his goods with these he permitteth us to traffique (4) Matth. 16.27 1 Cor. 15.58 Heb. 6.10 for our selves He then (5) Rom. 2.6 7 10 Phil. 2.13 1 Cor. 9.24 Revel 3.5 21.21.7 accompteth that we do him the most and best service when we work out our own salvation he encourageth us to procure all the peace all the vertue all the godlinesse all the graces all the present prayse and future glory we can Blessed blessed be the holy God for that while we abide here sinners upon earth we are allowed to be spiritually minded to place our affections upon things above to have our conversation in heaven we are not forbid to use (6) With 1 John 2.27 compare Exod. 30.33 no not the most precious ointment of the Sanctuary Seventhly For bestowing upon us all things [1] 2 Pet. 1.3 appertaining to godlinesse People who never yet head the [2] Psalm 89.15 joyful found may [3] Psalm 102.22 Revel 11.15 be religious if they will that is if they can I say The Gentiles which [4] Luke 1.79 sit in darknesse are [5] Acts 11.18 17.30 not prohibited light but light hath not yet shined unto them Whereas the day-star from on high hath visited us so that we walk at least we should walk as children of the light Yea [6] It is with us as Deut. 4.6 7 Psalm 147.20 unto us of this age and kingdome are given of Gospel-priviledges the best in every kinde We above all other the Churches of Christ have Matter of Thankfulnesse unto God First For his revealed will Luther was no lesse worthy rehrehension for [1] Epistola Jacobi collata cum Evangelio Johannis ejus epistolâ primâ cum Epistolis Paulinis imprimis quae ad Romanos Galatas Ephesios scriptae sunt verè straminea epistola est See Brochmand and Luthers German Bible printed 1528. terming S. James his Epistle a strawy Epistle then that plow-man was worthy to be praysed who for one single leaf of it gave a whole load of hay Verily if one Oration of Isocrates did cost [2] viz. if not an 133 l. yet 100 l. twenty talents of silver if for every verse which Oppianus presented was given a [3] viz 0 l. 16 s. -4 d. stater of gold then is every word of our God more [4] Psal 119.72 to be desired then thousands of gold and silver Sirs every judgement denounced every warning given every truth related every prediction and prophesie every precept every command every promise c. abundantly claim from us our studied thankfulnesse A small portion of holy Writ the Pentateuch is especially if it be compared unto all the other canonical Scriptures neverthelesse great [5] Psal 19.7 119. per totum 1.2 138.2 very great was the esteem given unto the word of God even then when no word of God was extant saving only those five books of Moses Beloved blessed are your eyes for they see those holy Scriptures which neither Moses nor David nor any of the Patriarchs saw Next For this revealed will of God [1] with Psalm 102.18 compare Hos 8.12 written By signes and wonders and by several other meanes hath the God of truth given testimony unto the truth of his Word (2) See du Plessis Grot. de veritate relig Christianae and Dr. Hammond his Reasonablenesse of Christian Religion Among which this is not the least namely the harmonious consent of various Copies in several Nations and Languages transcribed and preserved And herein let our God receive the prayse due from us for none of the Churches of Christ can equal their Bibles unto that published by our English Clergy even in [3] Videas Praefat. ad Waltoni Bibl. Polyglotta perillous times Thirdly For this written Word [1] Deut. 28.49 1 Cor. 14.14 Revel 14.16 translated and [2] Gen. 40.8 Job 33.23 Prov. 1.6 1 Cor. 12.10 14.13 Esay 50.4 interpreted Nor hath any Kingdome under Heaven so great cause to be thankful for the purity of Scripture-translations interpretations as England hath Fourthly For these truths of God wholsomely applyed In England every place is full of Manna I mean of religious Treatises almost in every kind When the Reverend Prelacy of this English Church were silenced by (1) The Tribe of Levi. standeth and falleth with the Tribe of Judah a rebellious power God gave them a heart and an ability to leave a Monument of truth in Bishop Waltons voluminous Bible The Lord stir up the hearts of those Ministers among us which now silence themselves to improve their talents likewise Whether in